WordPress Wednesdays: pingPressFM

Published on Sep 24, 2008   //  WordPress
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Duane Storey may be a nice guy and all, but a lot of WordPress users are reporting problems with his WordTwit WordPress plug-in. As you may recall, the purpose of this plug-in was to automatically post a tweet on your Twitter account each time that you publish a new post on your blog. It sounded like a very handy (and free) service and it worked just fine for some time. Then it started kicking back some errors.

While we wait for Duane to iron out those kinks, many of us are looking for alternatives. You may be okay with sending out a tweet manually each time you publish a post, but why would you want to do that if a plug-in can do it automatically. A possible alternative to WordTwit is pingPressFM, which works through Ping.FM.

Instead of just posting to your Twitter account, you can use Ping.FM to post to nearly 30 social networks around the Internet. In effect, pingPressFM can update all of these accounts with a link to your new blog post, potentially bringing in all sorts of traffic that you may not get otherwise. It’s the plug-in that we are using here on the BlueFur blog, in case you’re wondering.

Check it out here.

4 Comments to “WordPress Wednesdays: pingPressFM”

  • blogadmin
    September 24, 2008 7:04 pm

    I use this plugin now and it is great for updating lots of sites at once.

  • Willem Kossen
    September 25, 2008 3:49 am

    Apart from wordtwit, there are a number of other pingpong plugins for wordpress such as wordidentica wp2tumblr wordplurk. That’s a more ‘selective’ way to anounce your updates.

    the problem I see with ping.fm is that many people are getting messages more times. I like ping a lot, but this is a big disadvantage.

    By the way, I would be interested in automatically putting my blogentry on stumbleupon, digg and delicious. I haven’t seen a plugin do that yet…Any ideas?

    Cheers

  • blogadmin
    September 25, 2008 11:37 am

    There was a tool that did this. Never got it to work.

    I also think it would be a violation of those sites rules.

  • Sold Out Activist
    September 25, 2008 11:50 am

    A beta version of PingPressFM will be released later today. Which supports scheduled posts, custom triggers, and a new configuration interface.

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